The Development of Chinese Opera Mask

• Main Authors: Hsin-yu Chen, 陳新瑜
• Other Authors: Li-rong Luo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s96u5k

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 中國文學系 === 96 === The classical Chinese Opera is one of Chinese inherent performing arts which provided the fine tradition and the characteristic. Also, Chinese Opera uses dancing to display personal’s emotion, the ideals, the language and the behavior in the plays. The mask art is the most particular makeup and performance style in traditional Chinese Opera. The mask has long existed in two kinds of views: during 54 movements, the traditional Chinese culture abided strongly by the impact of Western thought. At that time, many literatures, refined scholars, professors publicly opposed the styles of mask that thought it’s “barbaric left over”. They advocated abolishing the Mask. However, the Chinese classical opera mask can continue to use ceaselessly on the stage for a long time. Naturally, Mask has its practical with the appreciation value, and it isn’t only for few people who had a partial for the Mask. As a result, the Liyuan realm used the thousands of masks, the different dynasty and the different kind of mask styles and started drawing up the books. The academic association emphatically rearranged the traditional art culture and did more systematic preservation and analysis. They face up to “mask” for the precious artistic resource. However, along with the development prosperously with diversification, it’s started showing the work in a slipshod way and the situation of fill a past without real qualifications by regardless of the plan or research analysis. Therefore, the thesis is presented the mask of “synchronic” and “diachronic” for the main spindle. Mask is also provided mutually promotive and transversal theory. We use the history of Chinese Opera for warp and the development of Mask for weft. Then, Mask is coordinated to relate cultural relic material and carried on the entire aspect view of the Mask research. Next, the thesis is collected all previous dynasties of Mask recourses and examines the data one by one which made the systemically arrangement and gathered the theory and the practical series with the academic judgment. One side is kept the old fashion, and the other is innovated the new style. At least, the thesis is discussed clearly about the origin and development, evolution, transmutation, cancels draws art, the meaning of symbol and the concept of art. I hope that I can contribute the scholarly research of the Mask art.